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A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections.

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Interviewer: Kingsmere is- is quite an interesting place. Speaker: Yes, mm-hm. Interviewer: Okay. I'm just going to ask you a few things about games you used to play. Um can you tell me anything about the games in the past? Speaker: We were crazy about games. We used to play um crokinole, and um almost the same, ch-- checkers. Interviewer: As a child- as a- as a little girl. Speaker: Yes, when we were growing up too we used to play. Interviewer: Did you play ah ah hide-and-seek? Speaker: Oh yes. And um musical chairs, that'd be another game we played.

A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections.

Oh no, we played- yup. We- we- we had work- you had work you had to do but- but you the game- like at night you didn't- you didn't work all night, you- so you- we played Crokinole here a lot. And then- but then of course, we- dad was a fiddler and- we learned- got into the (inc) through four boys that eventually all played fiddle a bit you-know.

A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections.

Speaker: No. No, it wasn't. It was a- a relatively small piece of land, it was off (inc)-Lake. Here (inc)-Lake- Across from Highway-thirty-five. And ah I remember playing Crokinole one of the first games we learned. And that board has a checkerboard on the other side of it- Interviewer: Side of it, yeah. Speaker: So, that was- and snakes-and-ladders.

A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections.

Speaker: There weren't all that many games because it was Depression time. Ah, I think Crokinole was one of the- and Monopoly, I can remember those two. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Of course hide-and-go-seek when you're real small, eh?

A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections.

In the circle there's a hole. And you have the little round wooden disks. That ah you would set at the edge of this here perimeter which is about ah thirty inches across the- the board- about thirty inches across. You'd set it on that mark and you had to hit it- hit the ah little Crokinole hoping you wouldn't hit one of those little pegs. And ah- and hoping that you could get in- in the hole, eh? Interviewer: Wow. Speaker: So anyway that's as far as that one went. And the next person would try the same thing but the next person always tried to knock yours away from that hole.

A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections.

Speaker: Well remember I had a family. I had a young family, I had my own kids so we would do things as a family. Ah we- our family's always been big on games. We've always liked games um Monopoly, Crokinole, Checkers, things-like-that. So we played a lot and ah my kids were just like any other kids.

A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections.

there's some other games that people have talked about that people used to play like ah, what was the one where you ah- Interviewer: Crokinole. Speaker: Yes, crokinole, yeah. Yeah it was very popular years ago. And I think in Middleville they still play crokinole some. Yeah I think s-- Interviewer: Crokinole championships, tournament- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: In Middleville. Speaker: Yes, yeah. And they ah, they ah, play the- oh, now I can't think of the name but you it- they're playing with the balls on the grass now?

A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections.

Speaker: And then you think you're going to- you get- and checkers was a big thing to do. Interviewer: Yeah yeah. Speaker: Checkers was- Interviewer: Crokinole. Speaker: Yup, Checkers, Crokinole. Those were games that you played and they were fun games. You-know, life if- when I'm working at the youth club, they don't know how to play solitaire, you-know, with a k-- with a deck of cards.

A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections.

Interviewer: Do you remember the games you used to play? What did kids- what kind of games did kids play? Speaker: Snakes-and-ladders. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: You-know those cardboard things. Crokinole was a big thing, even with the older people. Interviewer: Oh yeah. Speaker: Even with the parents, Crokinole. Interviewer: I hear people still people still play that a lot- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Around here. Speaker: Yeah, they do here and (inc) too.

A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections.

peaker: It was just a lark. But we didn't have T-V. Interviewer: Of course not. Speaker: Everybody had a radio and that's- but we had all sorts of board games, like Crokinole and Checkers and Snakes-and-Ladders. And of course there was always the whole standby of cards. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: They would be and then as little girls, we all played with dolls and our tea-sets.

A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections.

But we ah, we spent our childhood playing, particularly in the wintertime, playing all kinds of board games like crokinole and Chinese-checkers and Snakes-and-Ladders. And then we had a game called Authors I think.

A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections.

And- and- and ah- and of- which gave us a, you-know, a who- it was like 'who wrote Little-Women.' Louis-Alcot. I-think. Stuff-like-that. And ah, so they were educational but also, you-know, playing crokinole and- and-stuff you practised your dexterity.

A board game in which participants take turns to flick wooden discs on to the circular playing surface, attempting to displace opponents' pieces and land in the higher-scoring central sections.